I agree with the nostalgia love on blue, I think if that's your basis that's cool...

However, I just can't see the argument that there's any shred of doubt about the coat's color now. Fading doesn't happen uniformly over a fabric so personally I think that's a real big stretch as to it being the "reasonable doubt" on the matter, but that's me... I, at one time, was a blue guy and now I've seen more than enough to feel it's brown.

To me, the best photographic evidence is the picture of Han in front of the lifesize snowspeeder prop (which also shows the glaring overscale size of the Snowspeeder toy by the way), which is a well lit, sound stage setting, and the coat's as brown as it gets in that picture, just like the prop that was rolled out.

Either way, I'm happy to get a blue one... For nostalgia reasons, which then I understand, I'm also into picking one up to display with the brown.

The final nail for me was the licensing slick from Kenner where the Pantone color was Brown (I also like they used the Pantone cards in the CIV coat display case showing the card)

Why did they pick blue instead? I'm guessing someone read the code wrong (540 on the chart is Blue while 405 is Brown). Couple that with a not so iron fist handle on LFL Licensing (Cantina Aliens, 4-LOM/Zuckuss, etc) it slipped through the cracks. Couple that with blue tinged natural light in a cold icy planet and you have millions of disillusioned and incorrect memories.

Actually pulling the coat out of the archives was all the final proof I needed.

That's a lot for one battle pack. The TRU set with the beasts and three figures is going for $60. This has 7 figures, the turret and the AT-ST. I'm thinking the price point is probably going to be at least that much, but more likely $80.

*EDIT - Is it me, or does it look like there might be one more figure in this set? I think there might be a second Hoth Rebel up in the turret. There's some kind of plastic at the top of the turret, and what looks like a hand. But whatever figure might be there is obscured by the angled Star Wars logo on the box.

« Last Edit: September 19, 2007, 10:52 PM by Nicklab »

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